Off-stage follows young musician Alexander Van Dam on his journey towards discovering his own voice and stepping out of his big brother’s shadow.

Alex is a talented guitar player, but is not a huge fan of the punk rock world his older brother Vince lives in. Despite continued offers to play for Vince’s band Dinosaur Gardens, Alex is more interested in going the singer-songwriter route. But a lack of inspiration and confidence in his own songwriting abilities hold him back from stepping into the limelight himself – no matter how much his friend and confidante Suzanne Grotenhuis, operational director at Paradiso, pushes him to.

For Freshpost, a youth-centric subsidiary of The Post Online, I drew cartoons on a regular basis, making comments about something recent in the news or something that I thought was interesting or relevant. It was a fun exercise and a nice way for me to pay more attention to domestic news.

"Beautifully written"
"Best page layout I've seen in a long time"
"So good it makes me sick"

'Alison' is a short graphic novel about the influence that Alison Sudol's music has had on my life. This eight-page story was published through Diamond in an anthology filled with similar autobiographical stories about music and its influence on people's lives.

At Yoast I draw illustrations to accompany articles and blog posts about SEO and website optimization, translating abstract and technical concepts into inviting illustrations to accompany the text, and present the ideas of the article through a metaphor.

The interesting challenge in this work is to try and find metaphors and imagery that speaks to a wide variety of cultures, as Yoast has clients all over the world. We always try to factor in ethnicity, customs and age when designing each illustration. It's a very good way to examine your own subconcious biases and influences.

Dinerdate is a webcomic about a regular guy and his talking dog who hang out in a diner most of their free time. There, they get into wacky situations with the other patrons, which include a bear and a professional frenchman.

Dinerdate pretty much started on a whim, but ended up running for five years. It stopped updating in 2007.

ToxicSoy, or 'Special agent Pig and the case of the Toxic Soy', is the second animation I made for Monkeybizniz and Friends of the Earth International. In it, agent Pig investigates the sad truth behind the production of 'Responsible' labeled soy.

Core animation was done in After Effects in the space of one week. I developed the concept and handled all the animation, the background art was drawn by Joeri Lefevre and the music was composed by Dave van Luttervelt.

For the Copenhagen climate talks of December '09, Friends of the Earth International asked Monkeybizniz to create a viral animation for their Angry Mermaid Award. It features a mermaid (the symbol of Copenhagen) fighting against environmental injustice.

The animation was completed in two weeks. It's a little rough on the edges, but we were on a tight schedule. I did the storyboarding, design and animation of the characters, and final compositing. Background elements were made by Dimme van der Hout and Erica Gasataya, and music by Bart Delissen.

For a college assignment, we got a chunk of 12 seconds from a song (in this case Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive) and we were free to animate whatever we wanted to it. So I drew a guy free-running across rooftops.

All hand-animated with a tablet in Flash in two days. No tracing, all done by looking at freerunning clips on Youtube for reference.

I directed and shot the video in one afternoon with the JVC Everio 3CCD, then two days of post-production in After Effects. The handwriting was drawn in frame-by-frame, and the painting shots near the end were masked out to hide the edges of the paper. Plus some standard color grading and curves adjustments.